Cannibalism

Xie Nan brought Yuanshiren to the courtyard where he lived alone.

There is a trickling stream here, and several clumps of crimson-purple February orchids are planted on both sides of the stream.The petals followed the stream and made a bend on the rock, staying by the water and not going away.

As soon as he got outside the door, Tobishiren heard a crackling sound coming from inside the house.Xie Nan was also taken aback at first, but later remembered that there was still a bamboo bear inside.Unexpectedly, this iron-eating beast was so obedient, and told him to chop wood, he has been chopping until now.

Xie Nan said: "There is an iron-eating beast in my yard, his name is Yong Chuan. Don't be afraid, he has cultivated to the realm of spiritual consciousness and will not hurt anyone."

Yuan Shiren followed Xie Nan into the yard, and saw a white bear with black ears, black legs and dark circles holding an ax to chop back and forth. The clumsy movements looked really funny.

The black and white bear stopped waving its arms when it heard the voice of the person coming, and looked back.When his eyes passed through Xie Nan and landed on a young man behind him, he suddenly stared straight.In an instant, he changed from a beast body to a human form, dropped the ax in his hand, and strode towards Tobishiren.

"You..." Yong Chuan's long and narrow eyes lingered on Yuan Shiren's face, "Immortal?"

Xie Nan smiled and asked curiously, "So you know each other?"

"We don't know each other." Tobishiren looked suspiciously at the young man in front of him, "I've never seen you before."

"But I've seen you, I've seen you in the mirage above the East China Sea." Yong Chuan touched the young man's shoulder in disbelief, and after confirming that what he touched was a virtual entity, he said with emotion: "As expected of the sky The Tiger Clan of the Xie Clan in Yanshan, you can invite gods from all directions for a happy event."

Hearing the compliment from the other party, Xie Nan curled his lips together: "He is a friend of my twelfth brother Xie Sheng."

"Xie Sheng?" Yong Chuan heard it familiar, and then suddenly realized, "I see... so you are friends?"

Yong Chuan never expected that the immortal that Lin Poran was thinking of would meet Xie Sheng.It is so close at hand, why bother to climb up to Kongwang Mountain to worship the virtual image on the sea at the right time.

"If only we had come a few days later." Yong Chuan stared at Toshiro Jin's face and said calmly, "Or, he died a few days later."

There was a small, short choked sob hidden under the end of this sentence.

Tobishijin is a god enshrined by people, he can keenly perceive the inner pain of the living beings in the world - for this iron-eating beast, "he" must be a very important person.

Xie Nan picked up the ax that fell on the ground, waved his sleeves, and the chopped firewood immediately piled up neatly into a pile.

He said to the iron-eating beast: "There is a room on the west side of the yard for guests to rest. Go in and rest for a while. I have something to talk to this fairy."

Yong Chuan looked at Yuan Shiren hesitant to speak, frowned, turned and entered the room on the west side.

After the iron-eating beast disappeared, Xie Nan said to Yuan Shiren behind him: "I had doubts at first, but now I believe that you are a real god."

Xie Nan and Xie Sheng had roughly the same idea at the beginning: Mirage is the simplest and most effective way to test the identity of a god.

"When my twelfth younger brother broke into Yuanshou Mountain, he must have offended the God of Flowers. I grew up with Xie Sheng, and I know his temperament best--jealous of evil, kind and simple, but sometimes it is unavoidable to appear rampant .”

Yuan Shiren quickly waved his hand: "It's okay, Xie Sheng treats me very well now, it was all a misunderstanding before."

Xie Nan had already brought Yuan Shiren into the bedroom, and he took out a red robe embroidered with cranes from the rosewood wardrobe, handed it to him and said, "Xie Sheng used to play in the water outside the yard, and accidentally fell into the small In Xili, the robe was changed and left here with me and has not been taken away. It just so happens that this one looks festive, so the flower god will wear it for a day, and I will send you a new one tomorrow."

Tobishiren looked at the new clothes in his hand, then looked down at the one he was wearing, and asked wonderingly, "Why do you need to change clothes?"

Xie Nan didn't say clearly: "You will know when the flower god is replaced."

Yuan Shiren changed his clothes and handed the one Xie Sheng gave him to Xie Nan. As soon as Xie Nan got it, he sent a cool breeze from his mouth, and the clothes turned into a yellow tiger hair.

Xie Nan threw the tiger hair aside: "This is the hair that Xie Sheng pulled off from his own body. It can only be used as a short-term cover. After a long time, it will automatically change back. And...you are easy to expose your whereabouts. "

The boy was still arranging his belt, and he was stunned when he heard this: "Exposed whereabouts?"

Xie Nan nodded: "If you have a good relationship with Xie Sheng, that's fine. If you don't, and you wear the clothes he made out of his hair, it will be easy for him to find you. Tigers naturally know how to track the scent they leave behind. .”

"I understand, thank you." Yuan Shiren had already dressed, and Xie Sheng hadn't seen Xie Sheng coming to him. He looked at the quiet door and asked, "Then where are we going now?"

"I'm going to let Xie Sheng stay at the front door for a while." Xie Nan found a bamboo chair with a back and sat down, and heaved a sigh of relief, "Finally I can take a rest. Yesterday I told Xie Sheng what he was supposed to do. He took care of everything and was busy all day. Today is his turn to be a coolie. You can first go out with the servant who leads the guests around, and when the time is almost up, I will let Yong Chuan...let the bird The iron-eating beast went to call Xie Sheng back."

There are several camellias growing in the courtyard. Different from the colorful ones down the mountain, the camellias in Xie Nan's courtyard are elegant and white.Xie Nan leaned on the bamboo chair, the dark circles under his eyes contrasted with the white camellias.Yuan Shiren saw Xie Nan close his eyes, put his hands on his cheeks, and fell asleep after a while.

Xie Sheng has been loved by gods and elders since he was a child.He is lively and active, and never wants to stay quietly on the mountain. He likes to visit various fairy houses and learn some miscellaneous kung fu and fairy arts.He combined these furs with the magic of the tiger clan, and created a set of rare fairy magic techniques, and often used this set of magic techniques to go down the mountain to eliminate harm for the people.

Therefore, his reputation as a chivalrous hero is stronger than other brothers, and the visiting gods also like to chat with him.Xie Sheng stood at the front door for more than an hour, first chatted with the Barefoot Immortal, then sat with the boy under the South Sea Guanyin Seat and had some melon seed tea; finally, he chatted with the elder of the octopus clan - this elder once gave Give him the spells of the octopus family, and it is precisely with this ability that Xie Sheng can always catch evildoers who harm living beings without any effort.In any case, Xie Sheng has to thank this elder.

Among the visiting crowd, there is a land god who has a good relationship with Tianyan Mountain.The God of Earth inadvertently told Xie Sheng that a village near Tianfu Jiahu was recently invaded by wild beasts, and people were dragged away and eaten by wild beasts every day, so the villagers lived in fear, and even farming was delayed for many days.

Xie Sheng was very angry when he heard that, if it wasn't for Eleventh Sister's wedding going on, he would probably have called one or two brothers to get up and go down the mountain to Kingswood immediately.

He stood there thinking for a while, and suddenly found something weird. He asked the land god: "Beasts don't have consciousness, only brute force, so it shouldn't take much effort to get rid of them. Why didn't the local gods take action?" ?”

The Land God frowned, took a breath, pursed his lips and thought for a while, then shook his head and said, "I only heard about this on the way to the wedding banquet, and I don't know the specifics. Xie Sheng, don't be reckless."

"Thank you for your guidance, senior." Xie Sheng bowed to the old land god.

Ever since he met the little flower god in the Yuanshou God Realm, he has thought about this a lot more, for fear of ruining another ceremony similar to the Yuanshou Ritual Day.Because of his appearance, Tobishiren suffered a lot that day.Although the other party never complained about what happened that day, Xie Sheng always felt ashamed and always wanted to do something to make it up to him.

Xie Sheng looked around and found that the other welcoming brothers were all sitting in a pile and eating melon seeds.The gods like to chat with Xie Sheng, and the others are free.

The fourteenth brother in the lead was the happiest, and there was a bunch of melon seed shells lying on and under the table.

As soon as Xie Nan left, he became lazy, leaning on the chair by the window and squinting to bask in the sun.

Xie Sheng flicked Xie Shishi on the forehead.

"Oh." Xie Shishi was in pain, clutching his forehead and said angrily, "Brother Twelve, what are you doing?"

"If brother ten sees your lazy appearance, it's not as simple as flicking your forehead." Xie Sheng said to the brothers around him, "I still have a guest on the mountain that needs to be taken care of, so don't be lazy anymore, I'll take care of you first." Take a step."

Xie Sheng came to the courtyard of the tenth brother Xie Nan, pushed open the door, and heard the silence inside.

He thought: Could it be that his tenth brother took Xiao Huashen out for a stroll?

Xie Sheng walked into the courtyard and turned a corner, only to find that his tenth brother had fallen asleep leaning on the bamboo chair.

He walked to the west room and saw an iron-eating beast lying on the bed. This iron-eating beast ate half of the bamboo mat, and the remaining half was wrapped in his arms, sleeping soundly.

Xie Sheng clearly smelled the smell of the yellow cat in this room.But I didn't see it.

He walked lightly to the round table, and suddenly found a bulging outline protruding from the center of the cotton cloth put on the table to cover the dust.

In Xie Sheng's impression, the cotton cloth should have hit the ground just right, but today it dangled slightly in mid-air.The protruding outline on the table undulated slowly, and Xie Sheng could tell at a glance that it was a sleeping animal breathing... Well, it should be a sleeping cat.

Xie Sheng looked at the playfulness, so he wanted to play tricks on the little yellow cat.He picked up a few corners of the tablecloth and swung it up, and the yellow cat was easily lifted by him with the cloth on all fours.

"Meow——" the yellow cat was obviously awake, it didn't realize what happened, it could only step on the ground in a circle in a daze.

Xie Sheng poked the yellow cat's round head protruding from the cotton cloth with his hand, feeling affectionate: "Haha, I'm here."

The yellow cat didn't struggle anymore, but directly turned into a human form.This piece of cloth couldn't cover a young man's body, Xie Sheng felt his hands sink, and two of the four corners he held loosened.

Yuan Shiren's hair was disheveled, and his upper body protruded from the inside. Due to the unstable center of gravity, he could only reach out and grab Xie Sheng's shoulders, and Xie Sheng's enlarged face was reflected in his dark eyes.

Xie Sheng and Yuan Shiren looked at each other for a while, and their arms suddenly seemed to have been drained of strength, and they couldn't move at all—without the support of the cotton cloth under him, Yuan Shiren bent his legs and fell directly to the ground.

"Hey……"

His cry woke up Xie Nan who was sleeping in the yard.

Xie Nan put away the bamboo chair and rushed to the house, and saw the flower god on the ground kneeling on a piece of cloth, the clothes on his body were messier than his hair.The crane embroidered on the chest is curled up, and the slender neck seems to be twisted and tied in a knot.

Xie Sheng, on the other hand, stood motionless in front of the young man, and was very neatly dressed.

Xie Sheng quickly pulled Yuan Shiren to stand up, and patted the ashes off his body for him.

Xie Nan stared back and forth at them suspiciously: "What are you doing?"

"I wanted to play with the cat, and I didn't want to wake up Brother Ten." Xie Sheng picked up the wooden hairpin at his feet and handed it to the boy with loose hair.

Xie Nan laughed secretly that his younger brother couldn't even lie: "Nonsense, where are the cats?"

There will be no silly cats coming to the border where tigers gather.

Hearing the sound of their conversation, the Iron Eater who was lying on the bed also woke up. He sat up and wiped his face with his dark arms.

Xie Sheng knew that he was hard to argue with now, and his tenth brother might go further and further away on the road of misunderstanding his relationship with the man-eating flower.At this moment, I saw the iron-eating beast move, Xie Sheng had an idea, and said: "By the way, Brother Ten, there is something I want to ask you."

Xie Nan squinted at him: "What's the matter?"

Xie Sheng: "Actually, you know Lin Poran, right?"

As soon as he heard the name "Lin Boran", the iron-eater holding the half-drawn bamboo mat suddenly woke up.

Xie Nan didn't seem to intend to confess, he turned his head to the side: "You're wrong."

Xie Sheng could see something tricky in Xie Nan's expression.He calmly said: "After I came back from Kongwang Mountain, I went to look up the file about Lin Poran. I thought that since he hated monsters so much, something similar to the death of relatives and friends by monsters must have happened. Later I Sure enough, it was found that the merchant ship of Lin Poran's parents was hijacked by the Kraken in the East China Sea. A few days after the incident, a "Daoist Yang He" hanged the Kraken and fished out the remains of his parents. But how do I remember, this' The name of Yanghe Daochang is the alias you used to walk in all walks of life, Brother Ten?"

Seeing that it had been exposed, Xie Nan simply stopped talking.

When the Iron Eater heard that it was related to Lin Poran, he took the remaining half of the bamboo mat and sat on the chair, staring at the three of them, and watched the show in silence.

Yuan Shiren had already combed her hair again, Xie Sheng smoothed the broken hair behind the other's ear, and continued: "Even if Lin Poran was still a child at the time, Brother Ten, you should remember his breath." , and the iron-eating beast also has his aura. At that time, tenth brother, you asked me to catch the iron-eating beast, but you ran away secretly. Why? Thinking about it now, it is really strange. Tenth brother has never been a person who runs away."

Both of them stared at Xie Nan, wanting to hear what he had to say.

Xie Nan sighed and shook his head: "Forget it, it's not a big deal. If you want to hear it, I'll tell you."

The author has something to say:

The original pseudonym didn't sound good, so now it's changed to "Yanghe Daochang"